Wooden board with attached, turned cross-bar, and leather shoulder straps. Incised and painted decoration or Monarch butterfly and white trillium.
Context
Beautiful and well-made example of a presentation cradleboard from the American Abenaki area of southernmost Quebec. Construction similar to much earlier Mohawk examples, but decoration is very different. Does not appear to have been used.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1960
Place
State/Province
Quebec
Country
Canada
Continent
North America
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Cradleboard
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Carrier, Child
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Human-Powered Vehicles
Nomenclature Class
Land Transportation T&E
Nomenclature Category
Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects
